1862: First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride
1920: Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1968: British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech
1974: ‘The Troubles’, the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim
1980: Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested
1999: Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado
2010: The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster
Source: Onthisday.com
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